WORDS IN MOTION

"My Dancing Daze" by Rachel Lampert

"Inherited by Word of Mouth" by Madison Hertel & Aimee Rials

April 20-21-22 at 7:30pm

April 23 at 2pm

An evening of stories, movement and dance

with Rachel Lampert, Madison Hertel, and Aimee Rials

Editor/Advisor, Leslie Daniels

Running time 90 minutes with intermission

Recommended for ages 16+

This program is made possible in part with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, and from Tompkins County; administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.

Cast

Madison Hertel most recently was the Associate Choregrapher and a performer in Francesca Zambello’s The Sound of Music at the Arizona Opera. Other credits include West Side Story (Anybodys) at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in Cagliari, Italy; Denyce Graves' production of Carmen (Principal Dancer) at the Portland Opera; Glimmerglass Festival 2022 dancing and singing in Carmen, The Sound of Music, and as Bagheera in the world premiere of Kamala Sankaram's The Jungle Book. She looks forward to another season at the Glimmerglass Festival this summer, performing in Candide (Dance Captain) and Rinaldo (Dancer). A recent graduate of Ithaca College, she is based in NYC, where she continues to work on independent choreographic projects which have been performed at the Gibney Center.

Aimee Rials received her Master's of Fine Arts in dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Most recently she was a 2022 recipient of the Choreographers Initiative award through NYS DanceForce and NY Council on the Arts. Her choreographic work has been performed at the Gibney Center, 92Y’s Harkness Dance Center, Symphony Space, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Merce Cunningham Studio, DUMBO Dance Festival, Cool New York Dance Festival, Washington University’s Edison Theater, Ithaca College, Huntingdon College, and the Depot Theater. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Buffalo, Huntingdon College, youarehere dance company in St. Louis, and We Are Artists in Virginia. As a performer, Aimee has worked with Trebien Pollard’s Residue Dance Theater, Lauren Hale Dance and Beliz Demircioglu while in residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Aimee is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Ithaca College.

Rachel Lampert is known in Ithaca as the Artistic Director Emerita at Kitchen Theatre Company where she led the company for twenty years from 1997-2017. Her first career was as a dancer/choreographer who led her company Rachel Lampert & Dancers from 1975 to 1992. During the two isolating years of the pandemic, she wrote a memoir of those seventeen years. The working title is “My Dancing Daze.” In her memoir she revisits her younger self, her choices, their consequences and what it means to make a life in the arts from her current perspective. For this event she will read excerpts from the memoir with some theatrical embellishments.

Creative Team

This evening brings together several Ithaca-based artists working across disciplines. In addition to Madison Hertel, Aimee Rials and Rachel Lampert, the collaboration includes Lesley Greene, composer of the score for “Inherited by Work of Mouth” and Leslie Daniels, advisor and editor of the excerpts from “My Dancing Daze.”